Cookies Policy

In this Cookies Policy you will find information on how we use cookies on our website. Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

What cookies do we use?

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. These essential cookies are always enabled because our website won’t work properly without them. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings but you may then not be able to access all or parts of our website.

Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Third Party Cookies

[Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Name Technical Name Expires Type Purpose
Google Analytics _ga Persistent – 24 months Performance Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users and sessions. More info here. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.
Google Analytics _gid 1 day Performance This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. More info here.
Google Analytics _gat 1 minute Performance Google uses this cookie to distinguish users. More info here.
Google Analytics _gac 90 days Performance Google uses this cookie to store campaign information in order to provide Google Ads with a more reliable way to measure the interactions with the website. This cookie contains campaign information. More info here.
Google Analytics _gcl 24 months Performance Google uses this cookie to store campaign information in order to provide Google Ads with a more reliable way to measure the interactions with the website. This cookie contains campaign information. More info here.
Google Analytics collect session Performance Google uses this to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. More info here.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google uses cookies to help us analyze how users use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. On behalf of the website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on your activity for us and third parties who help operate and provide services related to the website. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of these cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser as discussed in this policy. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of the website. Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.

Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html or at https://policies.google.com/?hl=en&gl=uk.

Choices about cookies

You can choose which analytical, functionality and targeting cookies we can set by clicking on the button(s):

  • Strictly necessary cookies, ALWAYS ACTIVE
  • Analytical or performance cookies, DENY

You can also choose to “Deny” cookies in the cookie banner.

However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

Except for essential cookies, please refer to the third-party cookies table for expiry dates for each cookie.

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, please send us an email at compliance@rheo.uk.com.